I think the culprit in my case is f.association. That probably accounts for why mine is 2-3x longer than yours. I am on an intel quadcore machine... there's no reason for this.
But even having said that, I still submit that 4.591107 seconds to make 100 objects + dependencies is ridiculously slow - even for Ruby. Factory_girl is really just a poorly performing library. I think there's one other library worth considering... so I will see if that fairs any better. I think Factory_girl (or something like it) is worth using when you need to test validations that also depend on associations. I think Factory girl is pretty good for making mini- databases to test your queries/scopes. But I think Factory_girl is clearly NOT good for testing other things besides these. For controllers, it is too expensive to use. I will investigate others. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
